I've been very impressed with the nutritional expertise of Dr. Joel Fuhrman. He makes a strong scientific case for a diet predominantly of unprocessed or little processed plant foods in his books, "Eat to Live" and "Disease Proof your Child".

His website (http://www.drfuhrman.com/) has many delicious very healthy recipes.

I agree with RDaneel, smittenkitchen.com is a very good food blog. The blog emphasizes ingredients that are likely to already be in your kitchen and foods that are coming into season, two big pluses in my book. Certainly there are lots of desserts, but lots of other stuff as well. How about shaved asparagus pizza?

I've just subbed to Michael Ruhrman's blog http://ruhlman.com/. He wrote the brilliant cookbook "Ratio". I have no idea if I will find stuff I want to cook yet in this blog, but it looks promising. My CSA starts delivering food next week, and his blog post yesterday has a recipe for kale that he got from his CSA.

The argument on the "ruined" side of the ledger is extremely weak sauce. Toy Story is not to blame from Shrek--though the influence of Pixar might have something to do with the much-superior Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon.

Toy Story ruined kids movies? Now, that's crazy-talk.

"One reason why it's getting harder for laid off workers to find new work is that technology is sweeping through their old companies, destroying their old jobs forever."

This has always been true. It's why, over time, the ranks of labor gets thinner and the ranks of middle-management gets thicker. Eventually, all companies will be nothing but gigantic IT departments, accounting and a CEO.

"The Gulf disaster reminds us that homegrown dirty energy is no better than dirty energy imported from abroad."

Domestic capacity has advantages that, all other things being equal, being dependent on imports can't match. Also, all energy consumed on the massive scale we consume it is "dirty" energy. In some fashion.

Ezra, I love ChocolateandZucchini and DavidLebowitz, two food bloggers with many recipes, linked on Americablog. For vegan recipes (I;m a vegan and I know you are not) there's PPK.com--the post punk kitchen. Actually Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Romero's cookbooks are more consisten than this 'community' site, but there's some good stuff there.

Primarily, I like recipe blogs that have step-by-step pictures, because my oven is gigantic, so cooking times are always off. It's good to be able to see how 'done' everything should be at every stage.